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From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: AT&T owns X-windows ??  (was Re: Software Patents)
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.184945.6946@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:49:45 GMT
References: <820@puck.mrcu> <1804@pdxgate.UUCP> <1991Mar1.124740.26026@pmsmam.uucp>
Reply-To: shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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In article <1991Mar1.124740.26026@pmsmam.uucp> wwm@pmsmam.UUCP (Bill Meahan) writes:
>In article <1804@pdxgate.UUCP> berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes:
>>I never knew something as ridiculous as this even existed until
>>X Windows became property of AT&T.
>Are you SURE about this or are you just spreading a rumor based
>on something like buying X for a particular computer model?

X is not the property of AT&T.  AT&T holds the patent for backing store
and has decided to start enforcing it.  I haven't heard yet if anyone is
going to fight this, but it seems certain that someone will.  If nothing
else, there's ample evidence of prior art.
-- 
               Software longa, hardware brevis
Melinda Shore                                 shore@mtxinu.com
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